" And, as if to make the moral more obvious, a dirty pack of cards was scattered, underneath, upon the sawdust. His face darkened. He has a way of sitting on people. Where was this kindly world she had drawn so rosily in fancy? Disillusion everywhere. ’ ‘Also madame his wife—’ Charvill’s gorge rose. " After narrowly examining the countenance of the sitter, and motioning him with his pencil into a particular attitude, Sir James Thornhill commenced operations; and, while he rapidly transferred his lineaments to the canvass, engaged him in conversation, in the course of which he artfully contrived to draw him into a recital of his adventures. Dare we look back upon the darkened vista, and, in imagination retrace the path we have trod? With how many vain hopes is it shaded! with how many good resolutions, never fulfilled, is it paved! Where are the dreams of ambition in which, twelve years ago, we indulged? Where are the aspirations that fired us—the passions that consumed us then? Has our success in life been commensurate with our own desires—with the anticipations formed of us by others? Or, are we not blighted in heart, as in ambition? Has not the loved one been estranged by doubt, or snatched from us by the cold hand of death? Is not the goal, towards which we pressed, further off than ever—the prospect before us cheerless as the blank behind?—Enough of this. . “The Vote is the symbol of everything,” said Miss Brett. ‘Don’t involve me in your lover’s tiff. At Morningside Park I feel as though all my growing up was presently to stop, as though I was being shut in from the light of life, and, as they say in botany, etiolated. But I don't look for peace on this side the grave.
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